After waiting for two days, the rice was finally ready for harvest.
Learning from the lesson learned last time, Song Xuan got up very early this time and called everyone out at dawn.
The manpower this time can be said to be quite sufficient. There are more than a hundred people in the tribe. Even excluding the children, there are still one hundred to twenty people.
So the weather just started to get hot, around ten o'clock, and everyone had already finished cutting the rice.
Although I only worked for more than four hours, most of the time was spent on getting familiar with the small stone knives in my hands, especially Shi Meng and the others. Their hands were thick and rough, and their fingers were relatively thick. They wanted to use them flexibly. This kind of small stone is still a bit difficult.
So basically I didn’t do too much work in the first two or three hours, and only one-third was collected at most, and the rest was completed in the last hour or so.
There was no need for Shi Meng and the others to complete the rest of the work, so the hunting team, which had been holding back for several days, was finally let out again.
Although I have been idle in the tribe for such a long time, it is not completely fruitless. At least everyone who uses a bow and arrow has been given three more arrows. When it comes to hunting, the effect is still very obvious. I have arrows in my hand and I don’t panic. Well.
Since Shihua and the others have been picking wild fruits near the tribe recently, they can come back basically every day, so it was not until yesterday that Song Xuan notified them of today's arrangements.
After Shi Meng and the others left, they had to rely on them to help with the threshing task. After all, this was not the dozens of kilograms of rice from the two plots a few days ago. There were still several hundred kilograms of rice produced here.
With less manpower, it would really be difficult to keep busy, so Shihua and the others still had to work hard all day.
Even though he was mentally prepared, the rice in these few acres of land still brought quite a surprise to Song Xuan. According to preliminary estimates, there must be more than a thousand kilograms of rice that has not yet been dried.
Even if three more layers of moisture are removed in the sun, the remaining seven to eight hundred pounds should be relatively promising.
In this way, there will be enough rice seeds for next year's production. Song Xuan now regrets harvesting rice seeds from other tribes. It is really unfair to spend such a high price to get something that is already not in short supply in the tribe. Good deal.
But on second thought, the varieties found by other tribes are not necessarily exactly similar to those of Soaring Snake. Many of the ones collected so far look a bit empty.
Moreover, the rice plants in the tribe are also different. Although they are all from the same piece of land, logically speaking, they should be similar, and Song Xuan does not treat the various water and fertility conditions differently, but there is always a small patch that does not grow very well. Good situation.
Some of them were particularly tall, and Song Xuan deliberately selected a group. However, when he thought of this, nearly half of the rice in the rice fields had been harvested, so not many survived in the end. The rice that grows well only weighs about one pound.
If you want to have higher rice yields year after year, you must continue breeding. Unfortunately, Song Xuan didn't think of this at the beginning.
Those that grow strong and tall are definitely the first choice among the tribes. Whether it is disaster resistance or the rice produced in the end, they are generally better than short plants. However, there is also a possibility that the nutrients are concentrated on the rice stalks. Therefore, we can only select and breed them according to the existing conditions, and finally let them cross themselves.
So thinking about it this way, the rice seeds of other tribes may not be exactly the same. After all, the living conditions in each place are different. Some have more water and some have less water. Some have more wind and rain, and some may be a little drier. The geographical conditions are always different. The surrounding area covers hundreds of miles, and the climate changes are still very large.
Song Xuan could only comfort himself in this way. After all, the rice seeds were exchanged for pottery, which was completely worthless in Tengshe today.
And the most important thing is that it is not just rice seeds that were mentioned at the beginning, but other seeds will also be replaced. Even if you can only find one that can be used by the tribe in a year or two, in Song Xuan's opinion, this is not a loss.
Although the rice problem has not been completely solved, there will definitely be enough seeds for next year, so the most urgent problem now is vegetables, and there will definitely be no shortage in the meat tribe. Shi Meng and the others can go out for a few days. One day is enough for the tribe to eat for ten days and a half.
So the most scarce thing in the tribe now is vegetables. Although some edible wild vegetables have been found in the past, Song Xuan observed several types and none seemed to have left seeds. He didn't know how they reproduced. If he wanted to rely on this It is definitely not enough to meet the daily consumption of more than 100 people in the tribe, and the seasonal requirements for vegetables and wild vegetables are also very high. Most of them are only available in spring and summer. After this season, you can't find much.
Although the rapeseed has grown into what Song Xuan remembered, it is just shorter and does not produce many seeds, but at least there are some, but it is not suitable for cooking and eating. Song Xuan was still a little entangled in the beginning. After all, this is something that can extract oil.
But then I thought about it, now it is more important to cultivate the habit of eating rice. As for oil, it is more stable to obtain it through hunting.
The most important thing is that even if a large number of seeds are produced, Song Xuan doesn't seem to know how to squeeze out the oil. Song Xuan is reluctant to experiment with this until there is enough production, so he should still use it in the recent period. It is eaten as a dish.
But this alone is not enough. It all depends on the efforts of each tribe in the future. Whether there will be someone with particularly good luck to bring Soaring Snake what it wants.
What made Song Xuan feel a little happy was that the number of farmed animals in the tribe had exploded. This growth did not come from Shi Meng and the others, but from the fact that the rabbits they raised were so awesome.
Maybe they were not used to it in the tribe at first, so after raising them for a month or two, there was not much movement among these rabbits. Only one pair gave birth to a litter, and half of them died. But by the third month, I guess everyone has adapted to the life of being raised, and giving birth to a little rabbit is a big deal.
So far, each of these dozen pairs of rabbits has given birth to two litters. There are at least five or six rabbits in a litter, so there are more than a hundred rabbits born. However, although there are many rabbits, But a lot of them died, probably because they still didn't master the know-how of raising them. Nearly one-third of them died on the way.
There are simply enough, so there are nearly a hundred surviving so far, and I believe there will definitely be more and more in the future. Song Xuan is a little worried that there is not enough for them in the tribe, so he is planning to wait for the rice to be finished, and give these rabbits Get a new rabbit hutch.
A group of people worked hard all day and finally got all the rice down and put it all on the tribal open space to dry.
Although the rice didn't look like much, Song Xuan didn't think about digging a cellar. He let the stone burn some more jars and jars, and they were all larger. Each big jar could hold at least sixty or seventy kilograms of dry rice. paddy.
One advantage of using a jar is that as long as the mouth is sealed, you basically don’t have to worry about moisture return. The main thing is how to dig the cellar. Song Xuan is still thinking about it. Even if he has a general idea in his mind, he doesn’t dare to take it. The first batch of rice seeds were tested.
At present, it is better to pursue stability. Even if the cellar is dug out well and has a large capacity to store grains, Song Xuan is still worried. If all the rice is destroyed, then this year's hard work will be in vain. .
The cellars must be dug, so Song Xuan planned to wait until autumn to dig out a few more and put some things in them, such as plant ash and so on. The main thing was to observe whether they could completely block the entry of water vapor.
Now after the rice was dried, Song Xuan put it into the jar. First, a piece of animal skin of suitable size was cut out, and then it was buckled up with a large bowl. There was also a stone pressed on the bowl. Basically, It can ensure that even if the house leaks, rainwater will definitely not get in.
Although the weather is still relatively hot now, it is similar to Song Xuan's experience in his previous life. It is almost the time to enter autumn, but it is just that the weather is slowly starting to turn from hot to cool. Now is the hottest time, and it will definitely be in the future. It's getting cooler and cooler, and winter is still months away.
After putting all the rice into the warehouse, Song Xuan's biggest concern this year was finally firmly settled.
After Shi Meng and the others came back again, Song Xuan decided to take people to the salt mine again. It was time to improve the place. Moreover, the tribe was also very vocal about the salt they mined. Everyone seemed to be interested in it. I prefer to eat something I made myself.
This time, we can just get some more. This time, we don’t have to be all members of the hunting team like last time. We still have to give full play to Shi Meng’s productivity. It is definitely more suitable for them to hunt during this time. So Song Xuan asked Shihua to bring ten women with him.
Song Yuxuan originally wanted Shui Yun to pick up a few people and go with them, but after he said it, he didn't expect that since he refused, he only arranged for Shui Er and one person. Originally, Song Xuan didn't want people from Heishui to contact him now. There were too many secrets about Teng She, so since he took the initiative not to send anyone there, Song Xuan didn't ask any more questions.
It’s not scary to know what Teng She currently has, because whether it’s pottery, bows and arrows, or even salt, everyone will definitely know about it in the future. But if you follow it, it means that you have basically mastered the refining method. Although the two The tribe is currently integrating quite well, but after all, it has only been more than two months. Song Xuan does not dare to let them know too much. Before fully integrating into Soaring Snake, they should be a little more defensive.
